
Cool things happen.
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Cool things happen.
Ehehee I just remembered I saw a huge round orb weaver on my way home, there was a strong white wiry line attached to the main web and I twanged it just for funsies and she came out to have a look and she was so beautiful and round.
I took a few pictures and accidentally touched her while trying to show my hand for scale and was able to feel her chonky abdomen for a moment which spiders never let me do (but I always secretly want to). She was slightly spooked but only enough to slowly amble away rather than plummet out of sight.
Makes me smile remembering it
Did you know that the entomology department at the University of California Davis has a link where you can just ask questions?? #spiders
#bugstodon
https://entomology.ucdavis.edu/
Did you know that the entomology department at the University of California Davis has a link where you can just ask questions?? #spiders
#bugstodon
https://entomology.ucdavis.edu/
Did you know that the entomology department at the University of California Davis has a link where you can just ask questions?? #spiders
#bugstodon
https://entomology.ucdavis.edu/
Cool things happen.
dog day cicadas (Neotibicen canicularis) I've seen recently
dog day cicadas (Neotibicen canicularis) I've seen recently
Also, right as I was coming home I saw a pair of mating thread-legged bugs (family Reduviidae, subfamily Emesinae) on the wall! I have only seen them singly before. They're extremely skinny assassin bugs with a mantis-like raptorial first pair of legs.
They're very hard to take photos of as they will try to get away from you and also do this shaky, juddering walk. (Camouflage?) Lots of better photos here: https://bugguide.net/node/view/213
#bugstodon#BugSex #insects #bugs #Hemiptera#Heteroptera#Reduviidae#Emesinae
it's #WeevilWednesday, here's Acanthoscelidius acephala which I find on evening primrose. I'm obsessed with how their faces look like "^|^" from a certain angle when they have their heads tucked in!!
#bugstodon #insects #beetles#weevils#Coleoptera #Curculionidae#Ceutorhynchinae
it's #WeevilWednesday, here's Acanthoscelidius acephala which I find on evening primrose. I'm obsessed with how their faces look like "^|^" from a certain angle when they have their heads tucked in!!
#bugstodon #insects #beetles#weevils#Coleoptera #Curculionidae#Ceutorhynchinae
It's #WeevilWednesday, post 'em if you got 'em!
These little bluish-black weevils were all over the cosmos in a park. Not sure if #Curculionidae or #Brentidae, subfamily #Apioninae.
#bugstodon #insects #beetles#weevils#Coleoptera#Curculionoidea
It's #WeevilWednesday, post 'em if you got 'em!
These little bluish-black weevils were all over the cosmos in a park. Not sure if #Curculionidae or #Brentidae, subfamily #Apioninae.
#bugstodon #insects #beetles#weevils#Coleoptera#Curculionoidea
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